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links for 2007-05-30

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Eight Sound Reasons Not to Use MySQL

>> Why and when should you give the thumbs down to MySQL? …not that often you hear the other side of story.

(tags: mysql databases comp comparison)

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links for 2007-05-02

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

Miss Burst vs. Miss Busy: Working Enough vs. Working at Capacity

Cote’s take on an old but always controversial debate. Wouldn’t “pay per feature” be a solution to this debate?

(tags: management work cote career productivity)

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links for 2007-04-26

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

VCs pump less money into Austin during Q1 - Austin Business Journal:

OUCH!

(tags: VC startup money investment austin)

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links for 2007-04-25

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Growth Fund of America Tips the Scales [Fool.com] April 24, 2007

“Overall, Growth Fund has posted favorable long-term returns, with a 10-year annualized return of 13%, versus 8.2% for the S&P 500 Index and 5.5% for the Russell 1000 Growth Index through March 31.”

(tags: american funds mutual-funds money growth-fund-of-america)
VCs pump less money into Austin during Q1 - Austin Business Journal:

OUCH!

(tags: VC startup money investment austin)

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links for 2007-04-04

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

eVapt Inc

Divakar’s company

(tags: evapt divakar SaaS web software)

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links for 2007-03-29

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

YubNub - YubNub.org

Command line for the Web

(tags: yubnub command-line command software web tools social)

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links for 2007-03-28

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

www.canvaspress.com - Canvas Prints, Custom Canvas, Put your photos on Canvas Today!

Doak’s company has a new Web site. It’s cool seeing high tech ideas that are useful for everyone.

(tags: doak digital image canvaspress picture)

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links for 2007-03-19

Monday, March 19th, 2007

How To Be A Good Product Manager: Product management tips

A blog on product management… Looks like Roger and Brandon have a new addition in this space.

(tags: product-management software blog marketing product)
Fun with Scrum

The daily standup in mockumentary style…

(tags: via:texflats meeting humor SCRUM agile standup work)

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links for 2007-03-09

Friday, March 9th, 2007

Rating the Best 529 College Savings Plans - 06 Mar 2007

I’m feeling good about my 529 getting a top ranking!

(tags: 529 college savings CollegeAmerica Virginia)

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links for 2007-02-26

Monday, February 26th, 2007

MoMB: most anticipated - Most Anticipated

The 50 most anticipated applications in the webosphere, as measured by the number of bookmarks at del.icio.us for apps which are not publicly released yet. This list will be updated each Saturday.

(tags: software ideas web startup)

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links for 2007-02-20

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

An introduction to Agile Project Leadership – Part 1

Some good reminders for those leading Agile teams. There are some interesting graphs showing Agile versus Waterfall as well.
Trackback

(tags: agile ProjectManagement software leadership management)
Michael Mah: offshore-developed software projects have 2.8X as many bugs as average software projects

“…software defects are strongly correlated to the number of “lines of communication” between the developers on the team; and that number increases combinatorially (i.e., N*(N-1)/2) as the size of the team increases…”

(tags: agile offshoring metrics communication)

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links for 2007-02-14

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

Visualization Methods

This is an awesome showing of visual tooltips that is much richer than what most UIs have today. What’s interesting about it is the relative simplicity of adding these. Sent via Scott Isensee (http://talk.bmc.com/blogs/blog-isensee/scott-isensee/).

(tags: usability GUI tooltip visualization design programming HTML popup)
Agile Journal - Scaling Agile Development Via Architecture

Doing Agile architecture correctly.

(tags: agile software process via:mrchippy development project-management)

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links for 2007-02-01

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

Nature’s Path Organic Optimum Power Cereal Blueberry — 14 oz - Vitacost

A friend is eating this cereal as a healthy alternative to breakfast tacos.

(tags: fitness cereal health)

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links for 2007-01-31

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

http://martinfowler.com/articles/itsNotJustStandingUp.html

I’ve written about stand ups in the past, but this is an all-inclusive article. If your stand ups seem stale, your team is mostly likely doing something wrong. Read the article for more details.

(tags: via:klobetime agile standup meeting SCRUM software)

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links for 2007-01-26

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Google Testing Blog: Introducing “Testing on the Toilet”

This is an interesting idea sent over by JC. Implementing definitely requires the right combination of culture.

(tags: google testing toilet software management motivation)

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